Michael Tomasello is Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. His research interests focus on processes of social cognition, social learning, and communication/language in human children and great apes. Books include First Verbs (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Primate Cognition (Oxford University Press, 1997, with J. Call), The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (Harvard University Press, 1999), Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition (Harvard University Press, 2003), Origins of Human Communication (MIT Press, 2008), Why We Cooperate (MIT Press, 2009), and A Natural History of Human Thinking (Harvard University Press, 2014).

• Introduction to the Classic Edition, M. TomaselloIntroduction: Some Surprises for Psychologists, M. Tomasello Concept Structuring Systems in Language, L. Talmy Discourse and Grammar, J.W. Du Bois Human Cognition and the Elaboration of Events: Some Universal Conceptual Categories, S. Kemmer Social Interaction and Grammar, C.E. Ford, B.A. Fox, S.A. Thompson Cognitive Processes in Grammaticalization, J. Bybee Pronouns and Point of View: Cognitive Principles of Coreference, K. van Hoek On Explaining Language Universals, B. Comrie The Geometry of Grammatical Meaning: Semantic Maps and Cross-Linguistic Comparison, M. Haspelmath Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions: The Case ofLet Alone, C.J. Fillmore, P. Kay, M.C. O'Connor

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